Skilled Repairs
For when you really have to display those skills.

I watched a mini documentary about a tailor in Japan that specializes in restoring heavily worn clothing, and it got me to thinking. What if a tailor who was really skilled in their craft could repair clothing without the repairs being so obvious? Maybe another tailor would be able to spot subtle imperfections and pattern changes in the material, but your every day chummer won't be able to see if you paid primo chy to get your custom threads nearly fully repaired. This could be a goal for tailors to try and aspire to, outside of simply making their clothing more valuable.

Thoughts?

It really isn't, so when you get patched, it's patched and very annoying.

i do think it might be intentional to keep the economy rolling

then most tailors don't know how to hustle

repairing/patching isn't as expensive as tailoring new clothes, I do think the logic behind is to keep reusing your old clothes that were damaged instead of paying more chy for new, undamaged ones

you don't want the patch to show up in your desc? then get a new shirt made and replace the one that you got shot in

instead of 50% material it really should use the full material otherwise it's still cheaper than paying for new clothing imo

Skilled tailors should be able to seamlessly repair clothes without any sign of patching.

As I mentioned in the XOOC discussion, I do think this is an area where the game misunderstands its appeal to a certain segment of its audience when it treats clothing damage as inconsequential because of patching. But for many fashionistas a patch that leaves a stock message in the description is as bad as a rip or burn that leaves a stock message in the description, so clothing damage is tantamount to clothing destruction.

If we want more types of players with more preferences to engage with dangerous conflicts, this would be a tweak that would pay larger dividends than it might appear.